Although it appears that my singular passion is library and information science (LIS) based on these blog posts, I do indulge in other pursuits, namely, art. As this is my last weekend before the final semester of library school starts, I decided to take some time for myself and make my weekend a “Weekend of Art,” visiting various museums in New York City and Philadelphia.
What I saw was both phenomenal and groundbreaking, and mundane and questionable. I don’t like providing drawn out reviews as I believe art is subjective and best appreciated in person. If you have free time to visit any of these shows, I do recommend it.
Georgia O’Keeffe: Abstraction (note that link is for Whitney Museum exhibit; show closed there today but will be going to Phillips Collection in DC, then the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum in Santa Fe)
Collecting Biennals (The Whitney Museum). (The 2010 Whitney Biennal opens February 25th.)
Urs Fischer: Marguerite de Ponty (New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York City)
Common Ground: Eight Philadelphia Photographers in the 1960s and 1970s. (Philadelphia Museum of Art.) (Closes January 31st. In the Museum’s Perelman Building.)
Bauhaus: Workshops for Modernity (Museum of Modern Art.) (Closes January 25th. Unlike Tim Burton, does not require separate timed tickets, so if you can’t get to see Tim Burton, this is a nice alternative.
Not visited this particular weekend, but highly recommended, is Anish Kapoor: Memory (Guggenheim Museum of Art).
Exhibitions I hope to see in 2010 are below. I make no bones that this is a New York-centric list; there was nothing at the Philadelphia Museum of Art that interested me this year (their next exhibitions are on Picasso and Renoir, lovely artists but nothing that initially appears to be truly groundbreaking, a la the Dali retrospective in 2005 and Frida Kahlo in 2008. In addition, the Metropolitan Museum of Art will be hosting its own Picasso show around the same time. Yet, I might still visit and perhaps I might be pleasantly surprised.)
This list is, of course, bound to change as I read reviews, etc.
2010 Whitney Biennal (Whitney Museum of American Art)
Pictures by Women: A History of Modern Photography (MoMA)
Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Modern Century (MoMA)
Hilla Rebay: Art Educator (Guggenheim Museum)
Contemplating the Void: Interventions in the Guggenheim Museum (Guggenheim Museum)
American Woman: Fashioning a National Identity (Metropolitan Museum of Art)
Beat Memories: The Photographs of Allen Ginsberg (National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC.) (No link. Hoping to be in DC in June 2010 for the American Library Association Annual Conference, which is why this is on the list.)
And the wish list, places I may never get to but seem very intriguing:
love fear pleasure lust pain glamour death — Andy Warhol Media Works (Seattle Art Museum.
Disquieted (Portland Museum)
Dali: The Late Work (High Museum of Art, Atlanta) (no link on site yet)
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